{"id":466,"date":"2012-07-20T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T01:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-07-20T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T01:53:19","slug":"fearfully-and-wonderfully-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2012\/07\/20\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb…I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you SOOO much, God, for each moment you arranged for me to be with my brother Phil and his wife Julie and my little nieces last week!\u00a0 Thank you for the freedom to be human and feel<\/strong> sometimes scared, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes confused, sometimes proud of people, and sometimes completely astounded by your mercy and miracles.\u00a0 Sometimes all at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Thank you for allowing me to say goodbye to my little niece Brynne – to see and touch her intricate but empty little body.\u00a0 She wasn’t there.\u00a0 She was already gone to be with you.\u00a0 Was she actually watching and laughing<\/em><\/strong> at me for being so amazed by the temporary dwelling you knit together for her to live in 22 weeks and 5 days?<\/p>\n

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Thank you for little Emma – strong, tiny, little girl<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0 I am just astounded she is alive.\u00a0 Thank you for letting me watch her wave her hands and kick her feet.\u00a0 Please keep her with us, keep her breathing, keep her growing.\u00a0 Help her to feel the love that surrounds her in the NICU.\u00a0 Thank you for her brave, beautiful<\/strong> mama – I am so proud of Julie.\u00a0 I am so glad Emma has her for a mom!<\/p>\n

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Thank you for my brother!\u00a0 I love him.\u00a0 He is such a strong and faithful<\/strong> husband and Emma is blessed to have Phil for a dad.<\/p>\n

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I love this family!\u00a0 Thank you for them, Lord.<\/p>\n

And thank you for letting me get to know Julie’s mom a little bit, too, as we went through a few crazy days together.\u00a0 Thank you for the kindness and warmth<\/strong> of the Louk’s family as we came together to love Julie and Phil and each other.<\/p>\n

You are great<\/strong>, You are good<\/strong>.\u00a0 You hold us in the palm of your hand, and nothing takes you by surprise, and you don’t drop us.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 Thank you, Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb…I will praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” Thank you SOOO much, God, for each moment you arranged for me to be with my brother Phil and his wife Julie and my little nieces last week!\u00a0 Thank you for the freedom to be human and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1796],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-heart","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}